Ireland should be offered
interim compensation payments before a long-running inquiry in to
the crimes is completed, campaigners have urged.

Many former residents of
institutions where abuse was committed are now old and cannot wait
until the Historical Abuse Inquiry (HIA) finishes hearing evidence
and produces an official report to Stormont, charity Survivors and
Victims of Institutional Abuse (SAVIA) warned.

Retired judge Sir Anthony Hart
is leading the HIA probe, one of the UK's largest inquiries into
physical, sexual and emotional harm to children at homes run by the
church, state and voluntary organisations.

The inquiry was formally
established in January 2013 by the Northern Ireland Executive to
investigate child abuse which occurred in residential institutions
over a 73-year period from 1922 to 1995.

However, its investigative work
is not scheduled to finish until next summer, with a report due to
be submitted to Stormont ministers the following year.

This issue of whether victims
should receive financial compensation will be addressed in the
final report.

The HIA, which sits at Banbridge
courthouse in Co Down, is in the middle of its seventh module of
work, which is focusing on allegations of historical child abuse at
juvenile justice institutions.

SAVIA campaigner Margaret
McGuckin said: "We stand together, united as one in asking our
government to make an immediate commitment in agreeing to the
setting up of proposals to begin the start of an interim redress
scheme for those children, now adults, who were put in to the care
of church and state-run institutions.

"No more can this government or
those who were in charge of abuse victims at the time deny that
these abuses happened. Without pre-empting the findings of this
inquiry, the evidence that has come out through this HIA inquiry is
already, up to now, damning.

Abuse, whether it be sexual,
physical, emotional or sheer neglect, did occur."

A Tipperary man who began
sexually abusing his niece while she was in her First Holy
Communion dress has been jailed for ten years for rape and indecent
assault almost three decades ago.

The Central Criminal Court heard
the now 67-year-old man took his niece into a room after she had
been twirling and admiring her dress and put his hand on her
private parts outside her underwear.

The man continued to touch the
girl's vagina outside her underwear during the summer of 1986 when
she was in his company with her sister.

The next summer he began
touching her inside her underwear and in 1988 the abuse escalated
to rape.

The man, who can't be named to
protect his victim's identity, had pleaded not guilty to eight
counts of indecently assaulting and three counts of raping the girl
between 1986 and 1988.

He was convicted on all 11
counts by a jury after his trial. He has no previous
convictions.

Ms Justice Margaret Heneghan
imposed a ten year sentence on the rape counts and sentences of
five and six years on the indecent assault.

All sentences are to run
concurrently.

A local garda told Mary Rose
Gearty SC, prosecuting, that on one occasion the man called to the
victim's house, rubbed her vagina and kissed her on the mouth while
her parents were out.

The then nine-year-old girl told
her mother about the kiss, but the mother replied:“He's your uncle and he loves
you.” The girl didn't alert her parents to any of the abuse after
that as she thought it was normal.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:46 PM

2/2...The victim
recalled bleeding and feeling pain “like fire” after the first time
her uncle raped her three times in her family sitting room in
1988.

On the next occasion she began
crying as he raped her and she later told her mother she was
sore.

Her mother told her to apply
cream as the girl didn't explain why she felt pain.

The victim told gardaí that the
final time her uncle raped her would have been shortly after the
second, as she hadn't recovered from the pain.

This time she began screaming
during the rape and he withdrew quickly, before taking her
home.

Reading from her victim impact
statement the woman, now in her 30s, told the court that the impact
of the abuse had been “far-reaching and devastating”.

She described feeling “helpless,
weak and ashamed” and said there had been times where she'd had to
withdraw from family and friends.

She said she has struggled to
trust people, has suffered flashbacks of the abuse and that the
memories at one point “consumed” her.

The woman said that she knows
she did the right things despite the the trial being “harrowing”
for her.

Paul Greene SC, defending,
submitted to Ms Justice Heneghan that his client was a hard working
family man.

He asked the judge to consider
his client's lack of previous convictions and that significant time
has lapsed since the abuse.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:42 PM

Child sex attack
kidnapper given life…

A sex offender who snatched a
six-year-old girl off the street and bundled her into the boot of
his car has been jailed for life.

The youngster was playing near
her home in Burnley, Lancashire, when Imran Khan (34) kidnapped her
and drove her several miles before he exposed himself and incited
her to touch his privates.

Khan then dumped her in a
wheelie bin before she later freed herself and was found wandering
alone in distress by other children on the afternoon of March
26.

Ahead of a scheduled trial last
month the defendant pleaded guilty to kidnap, kidnap with intent to
commit a sexual offence and breaching a sexual offences prevention
order.

The registered sex offender was
convicted in 2008 of abducting a 12-year-old girl in a car and
sexually assaulting her.

Khan, from Pendle Street,
Accrington, was jailed for nine years and released in 2013, said
police.

Sentencing at Burnley Crown
Court yesterday, Judge Newell ordered Khan to serve two life
sentences for the kidnap offences, to run concurrently.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 11:52 AM

A County Tyrone
man is at the centre of "one of the most serious cases of sexual
exploitation of children" the National Crime Agency has ever had to
tackle, one of its officers has said….

Michael Dynes, 38, from Rossin
View in Dungannon, allegedly targeted young people through
advertisements seeking life models on the Gumtree
website.

He would then "audition" them by
webcam and try to incite them into committing sexual acts, a court
was told.

He is facing a series of sex
charges.

They include making and
possessing indecent images of children, having what are described
as extreme images and committing an act outraging public
decency.

Searched

He is also accused of engaging
in sexual acts in the presence of children and inciting children to
watch another person engaging in sexual acts.

Mr Dynes was arrested as part of
the first joint operation between the National Crime Agency (NCA)
and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, known as Operation
Jarra.

His home was searched at the
start of June.

The charges relate to various
dates between 2009 and this year.Mr Dynes appeared in Dungannon
Magistrates' Court as the charges were read out.

MoviesHe had been on bail since June
while a forensic examination of what was found in his home took
place.

That report revealed that his
computers contained hundreds of images, the court
heard.

Other extreme material was also
recovered.

An NCA officer in court opposed
bail and said the investigation had revealed Mr Dynes was chatting
with boys and girls online and trying to incite them into
committing sexual acts.

The judge refused bail and Mr
Dynes will appear again by video-link next month

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 11:45 AM

A former
housemaster has been jailed for 19 years for sex offences against
boys at a renowned Oxfordshire boarding school.

Trevor Bolton, 78, from
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, targeted his victims over 20 years at the
former Carmel College.

Bolton was convicted of 16
counts of indecent assault, six counts of indecency with a child
and three other sexual offences.

The sentence was welcomed by
police and one of his victims.

Peter Gluckstein, 56, from
London, was one of two men who waived anonymity after Bolton's
conviction.

"I'm stunned but glad. I feel
even more vindicated," he said after the sentencing.

Prey on boys: Adrian Foster,
chief crown prosecutor for Thames and Chiltern Crown Prosecution
Service (CPS), said Bolton lived in a flat above the boys'
dormitories.

"He abused his position of trust
and took advantage of his status to systematically prey on
vulnerable or homesick young boys by inviting them to his flat to
watch TV and smoke."

"While the offences took place
some time ago, and despite the fact that Bolton's eight victims are
successful individuals, every single one of them has admitted the
offences have had an impact on them well into their adult
lives."

Carmel College: It was
originally based at Greenham Common, Berkshire, but moved to
Mongewell Park in 1952

During its life the school was
attended by about 4,000 students a third from overseas

A 1973 edition of the Observer
described it as "the Jewish Eton

ANON Oct
10rd, 2015 @ 10:18 AM

Father guilty of
'life-threatening' baby abuse..

A father who inflicted
life-threatening injuries on a baby has been found guilty of
abuse.

The baby was taken to hospital
in September 2013 with four "extreme" injuries including bleeding
to the brain, a court heard.

The baby's father was found
guilty of four counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm at Truro
Crown Court and will be sentenced next month.

The mother of the baby was found
not guilty of all charges.

The father inflicted serious
injuries as severe as those caused by "a high speed car accident",
the court heard.

As well as bleeding to both
sides of the brain, the baby's right leg swelled to double the size
of his left leg and he had suffered multiple
fractures.

'Suspicious
injuries'…

During the trial Dr Eleanor
McCartney, child protection doctor at the Royal Cornwall Hospital,
told the court the injuries were "extreme" and not caused "by
normal or even rough handling of a child".

Prosecuting, Rosaleen Collins
said the injuries had happened on more than one
occasion.

The father was not allowed to
have unsupervised contact with the baby's brother, the court heard,
after the boy sustained suspicious injuries a year
earlier.

Neither the man, woman, nor the
baby can be named for legal reasons.

The father was found guilty of
one count of inflicting grievous bodily harm and three counts of
causing grievous bodily harm with intent but was cleared of one
count of grievous bodily harm with intent.

The mother was found not guilty
of four counts of grievous bodily harm with intent, four counts of
inflicting grievous bodily harm and one count of allowing or
causing injury to a child.

ANON Oct
10st, 2015 @ 01:39 PM

Indonesia to
chemically castrate convicted paedophiles…

Indonesia's president will soon
sign a decree authorising the use of chemical castration to punish
paedophiles, the attorney general said, following a string of
headline-grabbing child sex crimes.

Indonesia will join a small
group of nations that allows such punishment, including Poland,
Russia, and Estonia, as well as some U.S. states. In
2011,

South Korea became the first
Asian country to use chemical castration as a
punishment.

"We are very concerned about
child molestation abuse cases. This phenomenon has reached
extraordinary levels," Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo told
reporters after a cabinet meeting late on Tuesday.

"It has been agreed that there
will be additional punishment in order to make people think a
thousand times before doing this," he said.

President Joko Widodo is
expected to issue a presidential decree soon approving the
punishment after the cabinet agreed to the measure late on Tuesday,
Prasetyo said.

Chemical castration would
involve injecting convicted paedophiles with a female hormone in
the hope "his sexual desire will vanish", he said.

The rape last year of a
6-year-old student by a group of janitors at the U.S.-embassy
backed Jakarta Intercultural School rekindled calls for tougher
punishments.

There have been a number of
other high-profile child sex crimes since then. A 9-year-old
schoolgirl was raped and killed in the capital, Jakarta, earlier
this month.

A 39-year-old man has been
arrested in relation to that case.

Police believe the girl was
strangled with a cell phone charger cable, Indonesian media has
reported.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:36 PM

Met Police merges
child sex abuse inquiries…

Scotland Yard says it has
brought all its ongoing historical child sex abuse investigations
under the control of one team.

The Met says officers from
Operations Midland and Fairbank had identified "people and
locations" in common.

It says it is "operationally
important" to have the same officer in charge.

Operation Midland is an inquiry
into claims of child abuse by establishment figures, while
Operation Fairbank is a wider child abuse inquiry.

The homicide and serious crime
detectives working on Operation Midland are merging with the
expanded Fairbank team.

The merged operation will
investigate child abuse and allegations of police cover-ups and
support the Goddard Inquiry the independent inquiry into historical
child sex abuse in England and Wales, led by Justice Lowell
Goddard.

'Three child
murders'

The combined investigation team
will be led by Det Supt Ang Scott, from the Met's sexual offences,
exploitation and child abuse (SOECA) unit.

Det Supt Kenny McDonald - who
had been overseeing Operation Midland was widely criticised for
describing the allegations as "credible and true".

BBC home affairs correspondent
Tom Symonds said Mr McDonald was being moved to other work
investigating murders.

He said the Met denied the move
represented a downscaling of Operation Midland, its most sensitive
investigation into allegations of child abuse and three child
murders.

"Midland has been a separate
team until now, made up of 27 officers focused on claims that a
high-level paedophile operated in Westminster and other locations
in the late 1970s and early 1980s," he added.

The new team will continue to
investigate historical allegations of impropriety by police
officers dealing with sexual abuse in the period
1970-2005.

To date the force has received
48 such allegations the Independent Police Complaints Commission is
currently managing 29 of these

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:23 PM

Wanted paedophile
Paul Prestidge arrested in Cambodia…

A convicted paedophile who has
been on a police wanted list has been arrested in
Cambodia.

Paul Prestidge, 35, from
Plymouth, Devon, was arrested by Cambodian police on
Saturday.

The scout leader was jailed in
2007 for photographing naked boys and possessing indecent pictures
of children.

He is now being questioned by
Cambodian immigration officials and faces extradition back to the
UK.

Devon and Cornwall Police
confirmed they were working with the National Crime Agency (NCA) on
getting Prestidge returned to the UK.

The NCA said the arrest of
Prestidge on immigration offences was a "matter for the Cambodian
authorities".

'Betrayed scouting
movement'

Prestidge is wanted by police
for breaking the conditions of a sex offenders order after he
failed to return from a trip to visit relatives in Spain in
2010.

During Prestidge's trial, Exeter
Crown Court heard he encouraged boys aged nine and 10 to strip off
and invented a game called Sahara in which they pretended they were
so hot they had to take off all their clothes.

He also photographed boys during
camping trips.

Judge Jeremy Griggs told him at
the trial that he had "betrayed the scouting movement"

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 11:51 AM

The priest at the
centre of the Cloyne Report is pursuing a challenge under canonical
law to his dismissal from the clergy.

The priest, referred to in the
Cloyne Report as 'Fr Ronat' and 'Fr B', has vowed to clear his name
with a full legal challenge to Rome.

The Irish Independent
understands that a central element of the challenge will be the
church's decision to issue an apology and offer compensation to
those who had levelled allegations against him while the
disciplinary process was still ongoing.

The cleric's legal team has
argued that this stance was taken despite the fact that the cleric
was acquitted in two criminal trials. He has consistently protested
his innocence.

The dismissal of 'Fr Ronat' from
the clerical state was recommended by an Irish canonical court
almost two years ago. This was ratified by the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, one of Rome's highest clerical courts,
despite an appeal from Fr Ronat.

The elderly cleric lodged a
challenge to the ruling under canonical law last April - and
detailed submissions on that challenge have now been
made.

This represents his last avenue
of challenge to the disciplinary process beyond a personal appeal
to Pope Francis. A decision from Rome on the challenge is not
expected until next year.

The Irish canonical court, which
suspended its probe to allow Judge Yvonne Murphy to complete the
Cloyne Report into how the Cork diocese handled child-abuse
allegations, recommended that the priest be defrocked in March
2013.

He was then given 15 days to
indicate an appeal.

The cleric is not permitted to
speak about the ongoing church appeal process.

However, a relative confirmed
that the case is being "fought tooth and nail".

The man stressed that 'Fr Ronat'
continues to vehemently deny the allegations and remains deeply
upset by his treatment.

The cleric has never been
convicted of any criminal offence and his family claim that he has
been subjected to a campaign of harassment and
intimidation.

He has also threatened legal
action against a number of parties in relation to the
matter.

The Irish canonical court upheld
the allegations against the priest. Its recommendation was for his
immediate "dismissal from the clerical state".

However, Fr Ronat's legal team
has insisted that his position remains unchanged while the
challenge is ongoing.

In the meantime, long-standing
restrictions on his ministry remain in place.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 02:32 PM

Former scout
leader jailed for abuse of boys…

A former Dublin Scout leader who
sexually abused six young boys on camping trips in the late ‘70s
and early ‘80s has been jailed for four and a half
years.

David O’Brien, 63, would open
the boys’ sleeping bags, reach under their pyjamas, and fondle
their privates.

At Dublin Circuit Criminal
Court, O’Brien, of Benburb St, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of
indecently assaulting six males in Dublin, Kilkenny, and Cork
between 1975 and 1980. He has no previous convictions.

Judge Martin Nolan noted the
“harrowing” victim impact reports handed in by the men in which
several described being suicidal throughout their lives as a result
of O’Brien’s abuse.

One survivor said that the
scouts were “a hunting ground for [O’Brien’s] depraved
pleasure”.

The judge observed that the
offences took place in the ‘70s and early ‘80s and the maximum
sentence that could be handed down for any individual offence was
two years because of the law that was in force at the
time.

However, he said it was within
the court’s discretion to impose consecutive sentences. He imposed
three consecutive sentences of two years and suspended the final 18
months.

Garda White told Gerardine
Small, prosecuting, that Gardaí and the HSE were notified by
O’Brien’s counsellor after he admitted sexually abusing young boy
scouts more than 30 years ago.

She said the now adult victims
were contacted and each gave Garda statements in 2014. She agreed
with Michael Bowman, defending, that O’Brien leads an isolated
life, is a chronic alcoholic, and has had “a multiplicity of
inpatient stays” at psychiatric institutions.

The Garda further agreed that
O’Brien, a former postman, suffered a breakdown in his 30s and had
not abused boys since the 1980s.

One male, now aged 52, read a
moving victim impact statement to the court in which he described
how he has battled with depression, addiction and social anxiety
for decades due to the abuse.

He described O’Brien’s assaults
and said he had been suicidal and suffered nightmares and sleepless
nights for decades, adding: “I just want one fucking day without
David O’Brien.”

Another man took the witness box
to read his victim impact statement, in which he described himself
as a “survivor” with stability now at the age of 50.

He revealed he had been suicidal
and had a “lifelong struggle” with depression and alcohol, but he
“takes some comfort” that O

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 02:28 PM

Man 'threatened
to rape boy (14) if he didn't send him indecent
images'…

A businessman threatened to rape
a 14-year-old boy if he didn't send indecent images of himself, a
court heard.

Laszlo Futo is also accused of
sexual assaults on the teenager and subjecting him to a campaign of
harassment on social media.

Police said they suspect the
30-year-old was about to return to his native Hungary when they
arrested him in Belfast on Wednesday.

Futo, with an address at
Inverary Drive in the city, is charged with using a public
electronic network to send indecent, obscene or menacing messages,
and two counts of sexual assault.

He faces further charges of
inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity, common
assault and harassment. The alleged offences cover a period between
November 2014 and August 2015.

At Belfast Magistrates Court
Futo was refused bail due to risks he could flee or
reoffend.

Opposing his release, a
detective constable claimed the accused targeted the boy
immediately after meeting him through his car valeting
business.

According to the boy, Futo used
the online Snapchat service to exchange indecent
images.

The detective said: "The
defendant was saying to the injured party if you don't send me
pictures and meet me I will put you in the back of my white van,
take you into the country and rape you."

Futo had packed up his entire
apartment when police detained him, the court heard. It was claimed
that he told officers he was going back to Hungary.

His phone was seized and found
to contain photographs of young males of "borderline age" engaging
in sexual activity, the detective said. Under cross examination he
confirmed there was no evidence of Futo trying to contact any other
boys.

Defence counsel Declan Quinn
told the court his client, a gay man, claims it was the alleged
victim who first requested photos from him.

Deputy District Judge Joe Rice
remanded the accused in custody to appear again by video-link next
month.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 02:26 PM

Separate force to
review Metropolitan Police's probe of Lord Brittan…

Lord Brittan's widow should have
been informed that he would not have faced action over a rape
allegation sooner, Scotland Yard has admitted.

Investigating officers told the
complainant in April that there would not have been a prosecution
had the late peer been alive, but his legal team were not told at
the same time.

The Metropolitan Police today
published the key findings from a report ordered after the force
apologised to Lady Brittan. It followed a furore over allegations
raised by Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.

In a lengthy statement the force
also disclosed that commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has asked a
separate force to review the investigation to ensure it was
thorough and properly conducted.

Lord Brittan died in January
without being told he had been cleared of a rape
allegation.

The Met Police said the full
report into its handling of the affair was confidential but
published a summary of its details which named Lord Brittan for the
first time "because of the unique circumstances of the
case".

It concluded: "The MPS accepts
that Lord Brittan's solicitors should have been informed at the
same time as the complainant was informed.

"This would have permitted them
to clarify the position with Lady Brittan, for which the MPS
apologised in a letter to her solicitors on 6 October
2015.

"There had been no previous
contact between the MPS and Lady Brittan during the investigation
as it is not normal procedure to inform anyone other than the
person accused of the offence.

"Relatives of people who die
whilst under investigation would not normally be contacted after
their death and would not be told what the outcome of the
investigation would have been, or indeed whether it would have led
to a charge or not.

"But the MPS recognises as it
did throughout the dialogue with the CPS that the public interest
in the case required a different approach."

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 01:02 PM

Call to press
ahead with child abuse law…

Children’s charities have urged
the Government to give children a Christmas present of protection
by pressing ahead with a new law on sexual predators.

Four groups Barnardos, the
Children’s Rights Alliance, the Irish Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, and the Immigrant Council of Ireland joined
forces to take their message to the Dáil.

They want no let-up on the
progress of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, fearing that
if it’s left much longer it could get elbowed out of the way by
other business in the run-up to the election.

The bill will make it an offence
to groom children for sexual exploitation and strengthen measures
against online predators and child pornography.

The four charity heads said:
“The Sexual Offences Bill is an opportunity to protect some of the
most vulnerable children in Ireland from sexual predators
determined to exploit them in the general community, online and in
child prostitution.

“The measures it proposes have
been the subject of lengthy debate and it is important that we see
political leadership from all sides now so that this important
piece of legislation does not fall by the wayside ahead of the
general election.”

The bill also makes it a crime
to buy sexual services a key demand of more than 70 groups who have
signed up to the Turn Off The Red Light campaign and who say the
way to tackle prostitution and sex trafficking is to end demand for
purchased sex.

Justice Minister Frances
Fitzgerald told the Seanad last week that amendments to the bill
would also be made to simultaneously decriminalise the sale of sex
so that those working in prostitution were not targeted for
prosecution.

The bill also remedies the
gender anomaly on incest as currently the offence applies only to
male offenders, and it creates a two-year proximity clause around
the age of consent which safeguards teenagers from automatic
prosecution where one or both are below the legal age of consent
but they are engaged in consensual sex.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:02 PM

Indecent assault
sentence reduced…

An 80-year-old man jailed for
indecently assaulting a 10-year-old boy, often multiple times a
day, until he was 15, has had the final 12 months of his four-year
prison sentence suspended following a successful
appeal.

Patrick Bassett, of The
Farmhouse, Sarsfield Court, Glanmire, Co Cork, had pleaded guilty
to 22 counts of indecently assaulting the boy and one count of
indecently assaulting his brother in Co Cork in the late 1970s and
early 1980s.

He was sentenced to four years’
imprisonment by Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin at Cork Circuit Criminal
Court on May 28, 2014.

The Court of Appeal found
yesterday that the final 12 months of Bassett’s sentence should
have been suspended in light of his signed plea of guilty in the
district court, at the earliest possible stage of
proceedings.

Speaking on behalf of the
three-judge court, Mr Justice George Birmingham said the abuse
started when one of the brothers was 10 and continued until he was
14 or 15.

Mr Justice Birmingham said a
signed plea of guilty was valuable in cases of a sexual nature. It
indicates at an early stage that there will not be a contested
trial or cross-examination of victims and it aids the
administration of justice.

“For that reason only the
sentence should be subject to some element of interference,” said
the judge.

He suspended the final 12 months
of Bassett’s four year sentence and ordered he be subject to 12
months’ post-release supervision.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:43 PM

Women take action
over labour at Magdalene laundry…

Four women who claim they were
used as forced labour in a Magdalene laundry have brought High
Court proceedings challenging the refusal to admit them to the
State’s compensation scheme for survivors.

The Magdalene laundry
compensation scheme was set up by the Government in
2013.

The basis for the women’s
exclusion is that, while it is accepted that they had worked at St
Mary’s Refuge Magdalene Laundry at High Park Convent,

Drumcondra, Dublin, they were
not actually admitted to that institution.Instead, they had been admitted
to An Grianán Institution, located in the grounds of the convent of
the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge, High Park, Grace Park
Road, Drumcondra.

An Grianán was deemed a separate
and specific institution to the laundry.

The women claim that while they
were residents at An Grianán they were forced to perform labour for
no pay at the laundry every weekday.Judicial review

In their judicial review
proceedings, all four women want High Court orders quashing the
decisions refusing to admit them to the scheme.

They claim their exclusion is
unreasonable and irrational, that it flies in the face of common
sense and breaches their rights to Constitutional justice and fair
procedures.

Permission to bring the
challenges was granted, on an ex-parte basis, by Mr Justice Richard
Humphreys, who returned the matters to early December.

ANON Oct
10th, 2015 @ 12:29 PM

Staffordshire
historical child abuse case police quiz man…

Detectives investigating
allegations of historical child abuse involving a politician in
Staffordshire have questioned a man.

The 55-year-old was interviewed
under caution by police in connection with an inquiry prompted by
Esther Baker.

Ms Baker, who waived her
anonymity, said she was abused in the 1980s and 90s with police
officers present, and that a politician also abused
her.